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Chocolate Brownies with Cocoa (Page 2 ) | September 18, 2023

WHY USE COCOA POWDER AND CHOCOLATE?

The combination of cocoa powder and chocolate is essential in brownies.

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Cocoa powder helps provide the delicious chewiness that is essential for the brownie’s crust. If you are a bit put off by using cocoa powder, try it and then make up your mind.

You can buy fancy cocoa powders these days but being completely honest, I use ones I can buy in the supermarket which are nothing too fancy.

If you’re stuck, you can use hot chocolate at a push, but I would use this as a last resort.

The chocolate is also needed as it provides the fudgy texture – again essential.

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WHICH CHOCOLATE IS BEST TO USE?

Traditionally brownies are made with good quality dark chocolate with a high percentage or cocoa solids.

I can sometimes find this too rich. So what I tend to do is use a mix of milk and dark chocolate. This still makes an incredibly gooey, rich brownie but it is more to my taste.

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